In jQuery event.target
always refers to the element that triggered the event, where event
is the parameter passed to the function. http://api.jquery.com/category/events/event-object/
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a").click(function(event) {
alert(event.target.id);
});
});
Note also that this
will also work, but that it is not a jQuery object, so if you wish to use a jQuery function on it then you must refer to it as $(this)
, e.g.:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a").click(function(event) {
// this.append wouldn't work
$(this).append(" Clicked");
});
});